Signposting
Your volunteering role should never involve giving advice to an older person. If the older person you’re speaking to does have a specific issue they need help with, here are some organisations that may be able to help.
Mental health support
- Get help - free, 24/7, confidential mental health text support service | Shout 85258 (giveusashout.org)
- Get active and rundraise for Rethink Mental Illness
- Home - Mind
- Homepage | Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM) (thecalmzone.net)
- Contact us | Samaritans
- National charity helping people with anxiety - Anxiety UK
- Bipolar UK national UK charity
- samh.org.uk
Dementia
- Alzheimer's Society (alzheimers.org.uk)
- We are Scotland's dementia charity (alzscot.org)
- Specialist support to families facing dementia | Dementia UK
Parkinson’s
Information, advice, and advocacy
- Citizens Advice
- Citizens Advice Scotland
- citizensadvice.org.uk/wales/
- Home - Older People’s Commissioner for Wales
- The Association of Lifetime Lawyers
Older people’s charities
- Age UK | The UK's leading charity helping every older person who needs us
- Age Scotland | The national charity for people over the age of 50 (ageuk.org.uk)
- Age Cymru | We are the national charity for older people in Wales. (ageuk.org.uk)
- Independent Age | Supporting people facing financial hardship in later life
- Older Peoples Charity | Charity to help the Elderly | Friends of the Elderly (fote.org.uk)
Health
- The NHS website - NHS (www.nhs.uk)
- Scottish health information you can trust | NHS inform
- Home - Public Health Wales (nhs.wales)
Elder abuse
Veterans
Practical support
Bereavement, grief, and loss
The cost of living
Disability and mobility
- Home | Disability charity Scope UK
- Motability | Enhancing lives of disabled people with transportation solutions